News: millions of years ago, hybridization gave rise to a tetraploid #fish with two distinct parental subgenomes & this is fascinating: as young barbels develop, they switch from using opsins from one subgenome as larvae to those from the other as adults, fine-tuning their colour #vision! 👁️🌈.

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Michalis, you are right. But it really depends which community. In what country, in what academic environment, what field.

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The piece seems to imply that the biggest problem with using an LLM to extrude a paper is that allows scientists to juice their productivity stats. The actual problem is that a fully LLM-generated paper not based on experimental observations is fraudulent!

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Blockbuster evo devo work from Angus Davison’s group - myosin a/b amino acid changes cause a chirality polymorphism: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Our latest paper is out in @embojournal.org! Chromatin compaction is a hallmark of apoptosis, but the mechanism & function of this process was unclear. We show apoptotic compaction is required to prevent fragmented DNA from spreading beyond the dying cell, and is driven by histone deacetylation.

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